Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting

Linus Torvalds was debating up to the last minutes today of whether to opt for Linux 5.8-rc8 or go ahead and release Linux 5.8 as stable... He opted for Linux 5.8 splashing down on this historic day...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.8-Released

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Alex Deucher (1): Revert "drm/amdgpu: Fix NULL dereference in dpm sysfs handlers"

Good news, the commit that broke overclocking on AMD gpu's on the last 5.8-rc7 has been reverted just in time for 5.8.0.

[Melcar]

Alex Deucher (1): Revert "drm/amdgpu: Fix NULL dereference in dpm sysfs handlers"

Good news, the commit that broke overclocking on AMD gpu's on the last 5.8-rc7 has been reverted just in time for 5.8.0.

Can confirm that overclocking works again with 5.8.0. Was broken in 5.7.11 and 5.7.12 kernels too.

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Can confirm that overclocking works again with 5.8.0. Was broken in 5.7.11 and 5.7.12 kernels too.

Yeah, I'm expecting 5.7.13 to include the reverted commit as well.

For those on the latest 5.7 who can't wait, here's a patch to revert the commit: https://pastebin.com/raw/vqAxx6LS

[PluMGMK]

Booting with the new kernel, my Haswell seems to be stuck on the lowest clock state. It's possible I've done something stupid, so I'll go and double-check a few things…

EDIT: Found the problem. For some reason my kernel config had "userspace" set as the default CPU Frequency governor, which was being automatically changed to "powersave" at boot-time on older kernels. Changing the kernel config should fix it…

[Melcar]

Anyone having problems running Virtualbox guests with the 5.8 kernel? Neither my W10 or Manjaro guests will run. Something error about the kernel dkms driver not working.

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Anyone having problems running Virtualbox guests with the 5.8 kernel? Neither my W10 or Manjaro guests will run. Something error about the kernel dkms driver not working.

VirtualBox is notoriously slow for supporting new mainline kernels.

But I can confirm the latest testbuild is now working with 5.8.0.

You can download it from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds and scroll down to "Latest 6.1.x test builds" and click the Linux 64-bit

or visit the direct link: https://www.virtualbox.org/download/...inux_amd64.run

Installation is simple, but first uninstall your old VirtualBox (you won't lose your VMs) by whichever means you installed it (via apt for example).

After it's downloaded and you've uninstalled the prior version:

1. chmod +x VirtualBox-6.1.13-139685-Linux_amd64.run
2. sudo ./VirtualBox-6.1.13-139685-Linux_amd64.run
3. (optional) To uninstall, you can use sudo ./VirtualBox-6.1.13-139685-Linux_amd64.run uninstall

And you're good to go. I find the testbuilds very stable for what it's worth.

[Melcar]

VirtualBox is notoriously slow for supporting new mainline kernels.

But I can confirm the latest testbuild is now working with 5.8.0.

You can download it from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds and scroll down to "Latest 6.1.x test builds" and click the Linux 64-bit

or visit the direct link: https://www.virtualbox.org/download/...inux_amd64.run

Installation is simple, but first uninstall your old VirtualBox (you won't lose your VMs) by whichever means you installed it (via apt for example).

After it's downloaded and you've uninstalled the prior version:

1. chmod +x VirtualBox-6.1.13-139685-Linux_amd64.run
2. sudo ./VirtualBox-6.1.13-139685-Linux_amd64.run
3. (optional) To uninstall, you can use sudo ./VirtualBox-6.1.13-139685-Linux_amd64.run uninstall

And you're good to go. I find the testbuilds very stable for what it's worth.

Thanks, that's helpful. Good to know that Virtualbox is slow in adopting new kernels.

[bobbie424242]

The best feature is definitely the inclusive terminology and the 5% performance boost it incurs.

[gururise]

The best feature is definitely the inclusive terminology and the 5% performance boost it incurs.

What?